The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-11-03
The Side of Kitchen and His Party.

From speech delivered in the Senate
of the United States on the night of
March I'd, 1879, by Senator Zach. Chan
dler, after the entire evening had been
spent by Democratic Senators in lauding
jeff. Davis:
"Mr. President, twenty-five years ago
tomorrow, in the old Hall of the Senate,
now occupied by the Supreme Court of
the United States, 1, in company with
Mr.. Jefferson Davis. stood up and swore
before Almighty God that I would sup
port the Constitution of the United
States. Mr.. Jefferson Davis came from
the Cabinet of Franklin Pierce into the
Senate of the United States and took the
oath with me to be faithful to this Gov
ernment. During four years 1 sat in this
body with Mr.. Jefferson Davis and saw
the preparations going on from day to
day for the overthrow of this Govern
ment. With treason in his heart and per-
jury upon his lips he took the oath to sus-
tain the Government that he meant to
overthrow
'sSir, there was method in that m adness.
He, in cooperation with other men from
his section and in the Cabinet of Mr..
Buchanan, made careful preparation for
the event that was to follow. Your ar
mics were scattered all over this broad
land where they could not be used in an
emergency; your fleets were scattered
wherever the winds blew and water was
found to float them, where they could not
be used to put down rebellion; your Trea-
sury was depleted until your bonds bear
ing six per cent, principal and interest
payable in coin, were offered at Ss cents
on the dollar for current expenses, and
no buyers. Preparations were carefully
made. Your arms were sold under an
apparently innocent clause. in an army
bill providing that the Secretary of War
might, at his discretion, sell such arms as
he deemed it for the interest of the Gov
ernment to sell.
'sSir. eighteen years ago last month /
sat in these halls and listened to Jeffer-
son Davis delivering his farewell address,
informing us what our constitutional du-
ties to this Government were, and then
he left, and entered into the rebellion to
destroy the Government that he had
sworn to supportl I remained here, sir,
during the whole of that terrible rebel
lion. / saw our brave soldiers by thou
sands and hundreds of thousands, aye, 1
might say millions, pass through to the
theater of war, and saw their shattered
ranks return; l saw steamboat after
steamboat and railroad train after rail-
road train arrive with the MANNED and
the wounded; was with my friend from
Rhode Island (Mr. Burnside) when he
commanded the Army of the Potomac,
and saw piles of legs and arms that made
humanity shudder; saw the widow and
the orphan in their homes, and heard the
weeping and wailing of those who had
lost their dearest and their best. Mr..
President, / little thought at that time
that I should live to hear in the Senate of
the United States eulogies upon Jefferson
Davis living-a living rebel eulogized on
the floor of the Senate of the United
Statest- Sir, I am amazed to hear1t; and
I can tell the gentlemen on the other side
that they little know the spirit of the
North when they come here at this day,
and, with bravado on their lips, utter
eulogies upon a man whom every man,
woman and child in the North believes to
have been a double-dyed traitor to his
country"